Today, we’re going to teach you guys how to migrate from Zen Cart to Magento.
Zen Cart is a free, open-source, and user-friendly shopping cart platform that was developed by designers, developers, and shop owners in 2003.
Magento, on the other hand, is also a free, open-source, and one of the most popular eCommerce platforms that was launched in 2008.
Compared to Magento, Zen Cart offers lots of features, decent flexibility, and has a relatively big community, but there are still enough valid reasons to leave the platform for the better.
Magento, for example, provides more and way better eCommerce opportunities, offers more features and has a broader community with tons of third-party extensions.
So, if you’re a Zen Cart user who wants to migrate to the Magento platform for better eCommerce opportunities, then you’ve come to the right place.
In this tutorial, we’ve shared the quickest and simplest way to migrate your store from Zen Cart to Magento.
Steps to Migrate from Zen Cart to Magento
In order to migrate from Zen Cart to Magento, it is highly recommended to use a third-party shopping cart migration solution such as Cart2Cart to make the process as seamless as possible.
With that being said, here are the steps you need to follow for migrating your store from Zen Cart to Magento.
Step 1.
First of all, visit https://www.shopping-cart-migration.com/ and register an account.
Step 2.
After that, Select the Source Cart Type as Zen Cart and enter your Zen Cart Store’s URL as shown in the below screenshot.
Next, you need to download the connection bridge by clicking on the “Download Bridge” button.
Step 3.
Now, scroll down to the Target Cart Setup section.
In this section, select Target Cart as Magento and enter the target store’s URL as shown in the below screenshot.
Then, you need to again download the connection bridge by clicking on the “Download Bridge” button.
Step 4.
After that, click on the “Choose Entities” button and select the entities you want to migrate from your Zen Cart to Magento.
Step 5.
Once you’ve selected the entities, click on the “Proceed to Next Step” button.
In the next, you’ll see the Multi-Store migration setup.
Now, since Zen Cart does not support multi-store, you can only select a single target Magento store view to move all your Zen Cart data to.
So, select your desired Magento store view and click on the "Proceed to Next Step" button.
Step 6.
The next step is Currency Mapping, and at this step, you can match your Zen Cart currencies with Magento as shown in the below screenshot.
Step 7.
Now, if you’ve selected Order Status Mapping Entity as one of the entities you want to migrate in the third step, then you can do so in this step as shown in the below screenshot.
Step 8.
Once everything is done, it’s time to launch the migration process.
Launch the free demo to see the migration process in action.
And after the demo migration is completed, you need to launch Full Migration to finally move your store from Zen Cart to Magento.
Also read: How to Migrate Magento from a cPanel host to Cloudways?
Over to You!
That’s all about it!
This is how easy it is to migrate from Zen Cart to Magento.
We hope that you found this tutorial helpful. If you have any questions, please ask them in the comments below.
And if you need our professional assistance, feel free to contact us at any time.
